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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was a predominantly Black battalion of the US Women's Army Corps (WAC) [1] that managed postal services. The 6888th had 855 women and was led by Major Charity Adams. [2] It was the only predominantly Black US Women's Army Corps unit sent overseas during World War ...
The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on 15 May 1942, and converted to an active duty status in the Army of the United States as the WAC on 1 July 1943. Its first director was Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby.
In 1943, at the age of 20, Derriecott enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) of the U.S. Army Air Force. [3] She completed basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where she learned military procedures and discipline. [6] Afterward, she served as a nurse and later as a fuel officer at Douglas Army Airfield in Arizona. During her time in ...
The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was established in 1942. Women had long served the army as nurses or cooks, but when the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 pushed the U.S. into World ...
Soldiers of the 6888th Central Postal Battalion, the first black women's unit deployed overseas during World War II, pass in review during a 1945 military parade in Birmingham, England.
Director Tyler Perry's WWII drama The Six Triple Eight tells the true story of an all-Black unit of the Women's Army Corps. They were given a seemingly-impossible overseas assignment and prevailed ...
Members of the Women's Army Corps wait to board a ship for Europe in May 1945. In 1942, Carmen Contreras-Bozak, became the first Hispanic to join the WAAC, serving in Algiers under General Dwight D. Eisenhower. She was also the first of approximately 200 Puerto Rican women who would serve in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II. [26]
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